I’ve been tagged. Erin Tettensor, with whom I shared the Table of Contents for the 2005 Realms of the Dragons II anthology from Wizards of the Coast, has kindly linked me to the latest chain promo/meme for writers. The questions for this particular “interview” are geared toward a book. Erin’s first novel, Darkwalker, will be [...]
My Next Big Thing
Filed under Blog Tours, Interviews on December 11, 2012
Tagged: e-books, Janner Kohl, Mig's Rebellion, Relvan's Rescue, sword-and-sorcery
My Review of The Shard Axe
Filed under Reviews on December 20, 2011
Tagged: Dungeons & Dragons Online, Eberron, fantasy fiction, Marsheila Rockwell, media tie-in fiction, sword-and-sorcery, The Shard Axe
It is my general policy not to review the work of my peers, a lesson I learned the hard way back while writing Maiden of Pain. However, I won a copy of The Shard Axe by Marsheila Rockwell when I commented on a recent article she wrote about media tie-in fiction, and was asked by [...]
Janner Kohl is not a Harlequin romance
Filed under Writing Journal on March 10, 2009
Tagged: Janner Kohl, Relvan's Rescue, sword-and-sorcery
Janner Kohl is supposed to be my Solomon Kane, a wandering, sword-and-sorcery hero whose tales I would chronicle in episodic short stories. The setup was perfect: a mercenary of principles in a world transitioning from medieval dark ages to enlightened renaissance; where magic exists more as myth than reality, but still could be stumbled across [...]
Not a fan of Fafhrd
Filed under Reviews on October 28, 2008
Tagged: Fafhrd, fantasy fiction, Fritz Leiber, Gray Mouser, Lankhmar, sword-and-sorcery
It’s been a while since I read a book on my “bucket list” of genre classics. I picked up an omnibus of the first three Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser anthologies: Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death and Swords in the Mist. I’m afraid to say that other than “Lean Times in Lankhmar”, I’ve found [...]
Writing sword-and-sorcery fiction
Filed under Tips & Tools on May 23, 2008
Tagged: Conan, magic, sword-and-sorcery
A close second to epic fantasy in popularity would be the sword-and-sorcery sub-genre. The term was originally coined by author Fritz Leiber in response to Michael Moorcock’s demand to classify the fantasy adventure stories written by Robert E. Howard. As such, Conan and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser came to typify sword-and-sorcery. The genre suffered [...]
